Salem Towne

Salem Towne (March 5, 1779 – February 24, 1864) was an American educator, author and politician.

He wrote "System of Speculative Masonry" (1818),[1] "An Analysis of Derivative Words in the English Language" (1830)[2] and a series of school readers with Nelson M. Holbrook[3] of which more than a million copies were said to be sold.

Towne was born in Belchertown, Massachusetts, and taught in New York, where he was elected to the State Senate. He died in Greencastle, Indiana.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ Town, Salem (1818). A system of speculative masonry, in its origin, patronage, dissemination, principles, duties, and ultimate designs, laid open for the examination of the serious and candid: being a course of lectures, exhibited before the Grand Chapter of the state of New-York, at their annual meetings, held in Temple chapter room, in the city of Albany. Salem, N.Y.: Printed by Dodd and Stevenson.
  2. ^ Town, Salem (1854). An Analysis of Derivative Words in the English Language, Or A Key to Their Precise Analytic Definitions, by Prefixes and Suffixes. Phinney & Company.
  3. ^ Town, Salem; Holbrook, Nelson M. (1857). The Progressive Third Reader: For Public and Private Schools: Containing the Elementary Principles of Elocution, Illustrated by Examples and Exercises in Connection with Tables and Rules, and a Series of Lessons in Reading; with Original Designs and Engravings. Sanborn, Carter, Bazin.
  4. ^ Johnson's (revised) Universal Cyclopaedia. 1886.
  5. ^ Allibone, Samuel Austin (1871). A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors: Living and Deceased from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century. Containing Thirty Thousand Biographies and Literary Notices, with Forty Indexes of Subjects. Childs & Peterson [printed by Deacon & Peterson].
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